Monthly Archives: April 2016
Get Your First Look at Pixar’s Next Short Film
Pixar has released the first image and details of its new short film, Piper, which will air before Finding Dory when it arrives this summer.
Entertainment Weekly released the image for the six-minute short film, which features the titular bird overcoming its fear of water on a beach.
The first still from Piper.
Plays Live: Ratchet and Clank with Naomi
On the second of Wednesday's streams, Naomi is going to be playing the new Ratchet and Clank game!
We're going to be livestreaming every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 1PM - 3PM PT. We'll focus on new releases and DLC drops, but let us know in the comments what games you'd like to see!
We'll be answering questions live during the stream, so tweet @ign with #ignplayslive
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‘Devastating’ Arrow Death Discussed by Producers & Cast
Arrow: Season 4's first episode ended with a flash-forward six months into the future that showed Oliver Queen standing over a fresh grave. Now, in the 18th episode of the season -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- we know who is in the coffin.
We were invited to speak with Arrow's producers and cast members about this big development and what it means for Arrow going forward.
Warning: this article contains full spoilers for tonight’s episode, so if you don’t want to know who died, read no further!
Death Note: Netflix in Talks to Secure Live-Action Film
Adam Wingard's live-action Death Note movie may be headed to Netflix, as the popular streaming service is currently in "final negotiations" to secure distribution rights to the upcoming anime-based adaptation.
According to Variety, Lionsgate and STX were also in the running, but Netflix is "poised to come out on top" with a deal somewhere in the ballpark of $40-$50 million. The film is expected to begin production sometime this June.
Death Note originally started as a manga, which ran from 2003 to 2006, and tells the story of a high school student who discovers a notebook that grants him the ability to kill anyone by writing their name on its pages.
WW2 Flying Mercs Movie in Development
After teaming up to produce Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation, Skydance Media and Alibaba Pictures are once again joining forces to develop a film about the Flying Tigers.
Braveheart writer Randall Wallace is on board to write the movie, which "will tell the story of the unique brotherhood" that was formed between a group of volunteer pilots who fought alongside the Chinese during World War II.
"We could not be more excited to work with the incomparable Randall Wallace to bring to life the extraordinary, untold story of the great commitment and sacrifices made by this courageous group of pilots," Skydance CEO David Ellison said in a press release.
In addition to being an accomplish pilot, Ellison produced and co-starred in the World War I aerial drama Flyboys.
The Boys: Seth Rogen, Supernatural Creator Team for Cinemax Series
Following prior reports that Seth Rogen was pitching a TV adaptation based on Garth Ennis' comic The Boys, the project has now found a home at Cinemax.
According to Deadline, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Neal Moritz are all on board, with Supernatural creator and showrunner Eric Kripke writing the script. Rogen and Goldberg, who are also spearheading Preacher — another television series based on a popular Ennis comic — will direct.
Unlocked: About That Gears of War 4 Release Date…
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On this week's Xbox show, we discuss Gears of War 4's just-announced release date and what it means for the rest of the holiday 2016 Xbox lineup. Plus: Xbox 1.5, Mass Effect 4, Doom beta thoughts, Bethesda's public E3 presence, Final Fantasy XV demo reactions, and more!
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Woodard’s Civil War Role Different Than Luke Cage One
The guest list for next week's U.S. premiere of Captain America: Civil War briefly raised hopes that Marvel could be uniting its film and Netflix universes through the inclusion of an actor no one knew was in the movie, Oscar nominee Alfre Woodard.
Alfre Woodard in State of Affairs
We've known for a while that Woodard (True Blood, the animated Black Panther series) had been cast in Luke Cage as "Minetta," a powerful local politician who may be a version of the villain Black Mariah.
Rogue One Teaser Trailer Debuting on GMA Tomorrow
A trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is coming sooner than you might have expected.
Disney has announced that the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Star Wars film will premiere on Good Morning America on Thursday (April 7).
This will be the first official teaser trailer released for the movie. Set before the events of A New Hope, Rogue One stars Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker and Diego Luna.
Rogue One hits theaters on December 16, 2016. A lead-in comic will be released by Marvel prior to the movie's debut.
New Black Hole Discovery Changes Everything
A supermassive black hole with a mass of 17 billion suns was found in an isolated galaxy 200 million light years away.
Supermassive black holes have previously been found at the heart of large galaxies, but this is the first time one has been found in a relatively empty area, in a galaxy known as NGC 1600.
The black hole accounts for 2.1 percent of the entire mass of NGC 1600, where usually black holes only account for around 0.2 percent of their host galaxy's mass.
There was believed to be a correlation between the mass of a black hole and the mass of the galaxy's bulge of stars, but this new discovery may have proven that incorrect.
Professor Poshak Ghandi of the University of Southampton said, “What this is saying is that you don’t need these galaxy clusters to grow very massive black holes."